One page website examples

Ideas

One page website ideas worth stealing

Seven ideas taken from sites in this gallery. The first four hold for any portfolio. The last three are specific to a single scroll.

• 1

  Show fewer pieces than you want to

  A visitor forms an opinion from the first three things they see. Everything after that is either confirming it or diluting it. Cut to the work you want more of.

• 2

  Lead with one strong image, not a menu

  The first screen is the only one you are guaranteed. Give it a single piece of work at full width rather than a grid of thumbnails competing for the same attention.

• 3

  Put contact one click from everywhere

  Someone decides to hire you at an unpredictable point in the scroll. If they have to go looking at that moment, some of them stop.

• 4

  Own the domain

  A site on your own domain is the one asset in this list that keeps its value if you change platforms. It is also the one that makes an email address look like a business.

• 5

  Turn the navigation into anchors, and cap it at four

  On one page there is nowhere to navigate to, so the nav becomes a table of contents. Four anchors is the point past which people stop reading it and start scrolling instead.

• 6

  Order the sections the way a stranger decides

  What you do, proof that you do it, what it costs or how it works, then how to reach you. Chronology is how you remember the work. It is not how anyone else reads it.

• 7

  One scroll, one decision

  If a section does not move someone closer to contacting you or buying from you, it is costing you the scroll depth of the section underneath it.